The 2025-26 Budget: Department of Justice

Feb 19, 2025 - Most of the General Fund is used to support the Armed and Prohibited Persons System (APPS) enforcement teams, which seize firearms from individuals prohibited from owning or possessing them. This has been the case since 2019 ‑20 when the budget package shifted full support of these teams over to the General  Fund.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4972

The 2024-25 Budget: Department of Justice

Feb 9, 2024 - As shown in Figure  2, these monies will be transferred to four DOJ special funds —the UCL Fund ($263  million), the FCA Fund ($100  million), the PRLESF ($64  million), and the Antitrust Account ($57  million) —and will be available to support DOJ litigation-related costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4831

The 2022-23 Budget: Governor’s Public Safety Package

Feb 17, 2022 - As previously discussed, APPS identified nearly 23,600 armed and prohibited persons as of January 2021. The 2021 ‑22 budget provided $10  million one ‑time General Fund to DOJ ’s Gun  Violence Reduction Program for competitive grants to county sheriff ’s departments to reduce the number of armed and prohibited persons by seizing firearms and ammunition from them.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4546

The 2023-24 Budget: Judicial Branch Budget Proposals

Feb 10, 2023 - This additional time could be needed for various reasons, including to ensure that all participants have the ability to be heard (which could simply require more time and resources) or to address conflicting interpretations or app lication of the language (which could be resolved legislatively or through statewide Judicial Council guidance).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4673

Overview and Update on the Prison Receivership

Nov 8, 2023 - In order to expedite the salary increases that are typically subject to bargaining agreements between the state and a union, the Receiver used executive authority to waive state laws and regulations in 2006 to increase the compensation levels of medical staff between 5  percent and 64  percent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4813

Increasing Oversight of the State Litigation Deposit Fund

Jan 28, 2021 - About $ 64  m illion (or 13  p ercent) comes from special funds including litigation proceeds. The Division of Legal Services is further divided into three subdivisions —Civil Law, Criminal Law, and Public Rights.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4322

The 2022-23 Budget: Governor's Proposals for CDCR Operations

Feb 8, 2022 - Specifically, the department reports that overdose ‑related deaths declined by 64  percent and overdose ‑related emergencies and hospitalizations declined by 27  percent. We note that it is possible that other factors (such as fewer drugs entering the prisons due to pandemic ‑related restrictions on prison visiting) could have  contributed to the reduction in overdose ‑related deaths, emergencies, and hospitalizations.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4517

The 2020-21 Budget: Effectively Managing State Prison Infrastructure

Feb 28, 2020 - For example, the 2016 ‑ 17 b udget included a $ 64  m illion General Fund augmentation and the 2019 ‑ 20 b udget included an additional $71. 3  m illion General Fund augmentation for CDCR rehabilitative programing.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4186

The 2020-21 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2020 - The budget assumes 27,000 seniors will gain comprehensive coverage at a half ‑year cost of $ 64  m illion General Fund in 2020 ‑21 and an annual ongoing cost of $ 320  m illion General Fund at full implementation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4135

Potential Impacts of Recent State Asset Forfeiture Changes

Jan 6, 2020 - For example, Proposition  64 (201 6) l egalized cannabis and Proposition  47 (201 4) r educed penalties for nonviolent drug crimes. Both of these changes likely resulted in reduced asset forfeitures.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4128